(November 17, 2013 at 6:24 pm)StuW Wrote: Nothing wring with scooping your brain out for a few hours every now and then...
Pretty much this. Action films are tough to enjoy if you're trying to make sense of the story or plot. Much easier to enjoy if you're just sitting there going "oooh, explosion..."
My dad took me to see Godzilla versus Megalon back in 1976 or 1977 or thereabouts. It was the one where Godzilla and his robot buddy fight giant monsters. It was corny as hell, but to an eight-year-old it was pure monster-movie heaven. Pacific Rim brought back some of that. I enjoyed it immensely.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
